26 June, 2017

ffmpeg animated gif custom palettes

In the process I discovered that as well as the expected fairly straightforward conversion mode, ffmpeg -i mymovie.mov mymovie.gif, there is another mode which can generate a custom palette. Because apparently by default, a default palette is used.

That is a slightly more awkward two step process, described for example here, but at least for my goggles GIFs looks way better (to me) although turning out to be four times the size: